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Reading
- Prairie Schooner
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 78, Number 2, Summer 2004
- pp. 188-189
- 10.1353/psg.2004.0078
- Article
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Reading
Ann Glenn
How comforting characters might be-
the heroine now waking
to the subtle invasion of snowfallen on everything she sees
as she rises, filling the heavy black
kettle, feeling the suddencold beneath her feet. How easy-
moving into her room, entirely in
to this story, tracing her stepsthrough the strangely similar pattern
of every day, each beginning
with a promise of the new.Though most of her days and hours
resemble the others, in the pages
I keep turning (over or out, depending), [End Page 188]a word, a flurry, a simple cup
seems edged in silver, set
apart from this world, shiningwith the finish we love in film.
This is why I love a life of fiction.
This is why some days I cannot read.
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